![]() Middle English quiveren perhaps from quiver nimble ( from Old English cwifer- gwei- in Indo-European roots)įrom Middle English cwiver, from Old English *cwiferįrom Middle English quiveren, probably from the adjective. Middle English from Anglo-Norman quiveir variant of Old French cuivre from Old Low Franconian cocar probably from Medieval Latin cucurum probably from Hunnish Mongolian kökürĪmerican Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition Join 1,000+ subscribers and sign up for my writing and editing email newsletter for more tips like this.From Middle English quiver, from Anglo-Norman quiveir, from Old Dutch cocare (compare Dutch koker), from Hunnic *kukur (“flask, cask") (compare Uyghur (Taranči) kökür, Kazakh kökkör), from Mongolic *köky- (“to suckle") (compare Kalmyk кøкyp (kokür, “leather flask for kumis"), Middle Mongolian (køkygyr, “cowhide water- or wine-cask")). You might stumble over your language sometimes-spoken or written-but don’t let it produce a quaver in your voice or a quiver in your typing fingers. So is there a link between the two? It’s hard to argue definitively to the contrary, but they are two different words that have been around for a long time. “Quaver” came to be as a verb also in the 1400s, from the Middle English word “quaven,” meaning to tremble. Stimulation or damage to a nerve may cause your muscle fibers to twitch. Your muscles are made up of fibers that your nerves control. ![]() “Quiver” is related to the Old English word cwiferlice (sound it out and you’ll see the connection), and this word meant “zealously.” But “quiver” has been used with its present definition, at least as a noun, since the 1300s. Twitching involves small muscle contractions in the body. This is another one of those “why, English language, why?” spelling differences, isn’t it? It starts getting a bit wild when you think about adjective and adverb forms of this words-”quivery” and “quiveringly” versus “quavery” and “quaveringly”-but they are all indeed distinct words. “quaver” – did you already know this difference? kwiv-er See synonyms for: quiver / quivered / quivering / quivers on.
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